New York Post (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
DENVER - JetBlue unloaded a crate load of NY VIPs on one flight - Gov. David Paterson, Congress woman Carolyn Maloney, Bronx BP Adolfo Carrion, State Comp troller Tom DiNapoli, Rep. Eliot Engel, the Right Honorable United States senior senator from...
Customs Law (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
On July 31, the Securing Our Borders and Our Data Act was introduced by Representative Eliot Engel with Representative Ron Paul on as a co-sponsor. Here is a press release on the bill, which is intended to limit Customs & Border Protection's authority to search digital data without reasonable suspicion that the data holds evidence of a crime. Here is the full text of HR 6702. This is an interesting...
ClearysNoteBook (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
When listening to "The Laura Ingraham Show" on Thursday, August 7, she interviewed Minority Whip Roy Blount (R-MO) and Representative Eliot Engel (D-NY) on the subject of the House of Representatives voting to lift the...
PAXALLES (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Laura Ingraham hosted dueling Congressmen Roy Blunt (R-MO) and Eliot Engel (D-NY), on the House GOP's oil drilling protest. Blunt said there is energy on the GOP side on the energy issue - and will be there every day to...
Green Car Congress (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
A tri-partisan bill principally sponsored by Senators Sam Brownback (R-KS), Ken Salazar (D-CO) and Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) (S.3303) and Representatives Eliot Engel (D-NY-17), Jack Kingston (R-GA-1), Steve Israel (D-NY-2), and Bob Inglis (R-SC-4) (H.R.6559) would require that starting in 2012,...
Politics on the Hudson (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel, D-Bronx, announced today the introduction of a bill that would require half of all cars made in the U.S. be manufactured as “flexible fuel” vehicles, meaning they could run on gasoline, alcohol or a combination of the two. Vehicles manufacturers would have until 2012 to meet this goal before it rises to [...]
Winds of Change.NET (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
“The war in Bosnia will look like a tea party if Serbian nationalism runs wild in Kosovo.” U.S. Representative Eliot Engel “The whole world is a vast Kosovo, an abominable blood-logged plain.” From Black Lamb and Gray Falcon by Rebecca West, 1941. Strange country, Kosovo. It’s European, but it isn’t Christian. It’s majority-Muslim, but it is not anti-American. Foreign soldiers are hailed as liberators...
the albany project - Front Page (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
Just a day after Congressional leaders introduced an outrageous measure to expand President Bush's authority to spy on Americans, Congressman Eliot Engel joined with a majority of Republicans and a minority of Democrats, mostly conservative Blue Dogs and members of the hawkish Democratic Leadership Council, in adopting the new FISA bill. The bill, if passed by the Senate will also give retroactive...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Protocol Drives Number of Achievements; Industry Outlines Next Steps WASHINGTON, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- In September 2001, industry representatives signed an agreement, today known as the "Harkin-Engel Protocol," developed in partnership with U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) and U.S. Representative Eliot Engel (D-NY). The agreement laid out a series of steps aimed at eliminating the worst forms of...
NDN Blog - NDN Blog (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
NDN is proud to announce the launch of the Latin American Policy Initiative (LAPI). This will include a monthly luncheon series that will feature Members of Congress, Ambassadors from Latin America, and other key policy experts. Each luncheon will focus on a single country and explore opportunities to increase understanding of the bilateral relationships that the United States shares with each country....
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
As we wrote in today’s paper, Clinton- (and now Obama-) supporting congressman Eliot Engel thinks that Barack Obama’s election may depend on him picking the former first lady as his running mate. Engel’s fellow New York Democrat Louise Slaughter, who, like Engel, backed Clinton until the primaries were over, has a different analysis: “I don't see any way in the world Obama could ever lose New York,"...
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Shortly after Hillary Clinton gave her historic concession speech at the National Building Museum in Washington, she asked Representative Eliot Engel—one of two members of New York’s House delegation to make the trip down—for a bit of feedback. “She asked me if I thought it would help in getting her people to support Obama, and I said I thought it would,” Mr. Engel recalled. “And then she said, ‘Tell...
the albany project - Front Page (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Don't roll your eyes just yet. This isn't just ANOTHER diary of mine complaining about Congressman Eliot Engel's involvement with Rev. John Hagee's Doomsday cult known as Christian's United for Israel. This is a blog about how I'm making Congressman Engel's life tough, and how I'm reminding him about his obligation to the Democratic Party and his constituents far outweigh any quid pro quo agreement...
Jihad Watch (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
Eliot Engel speaks truth to power. "US congressmen demand UNRWA reform," by Etgar Lefkovits for the Jerusalem Post, May 27 (thanks to Louis): A group of bipartisan US congressmen is urging reform in UNRWA, the UN body that deals exclusively...
Adotas (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
ADOTAS – Legislators grilled members of the Federal Communications Commission yesterday over perceived failures of the recent wireless spectrum auction, according to reports. Three lawmakers (Representatives Cliff Stearns and John Shimkus, both Republicans, and Eliot Engel, a Democrat) said that Google “maneuvered” its way into an open wireless network without having to pay the piper; Verizon ended...
